White privilege, White places, White things

What is white privilege? 
It’s almost impossible for some of us to maneuver with it in place, while others benefit from it so much it’s invisible to them. White privilege is defined by the online dictionary as an idiom, for societal privileges that value people identified as white…

Open letter to self-proclaimed reasonable white dudes

Dear ‘intellectually-minded’ white men who just want to have a ‘reasonable conversation’:

You start out by asking me a question after I have pointed out something problematic. Even though I know that it’s rare…

an analogy to explain why the privileged are responsible for ending oppression: racist babysitter

Imagine that a racist babysitter is watching after a white kid and a black kid. And she has two cookies that she’s going to give to the kids. She likes the white…

“The History of White People”: vastly informative, profoundly important, and beautifully constructed

What is the origin of the beauty ideal of pale, slender, young women? How did Nazism start? How did men get so fixated on their penises as symbols of their…

My Problem With a Certain Popular Version of Activism

I’m black. I’m also not heterosexual. I grew up in the Third World. I moved to North America as a teen and I lived there for 10 years. I did not achieve the immigrant’s dream. I did not get my dream job straight out of school. I don’t…

The North won the War. The South won Reconstruction.

Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, was absolutely a labor of love for him. He understood that to rise up education would be pivotal and I believe he wanted to give everyone a path to the freedom education brings. I…